Robert Louis August Maximilian Gürke

Robert Louis August Maximilian Gürke ( born November 17, 1854 in Bytom, † March 16, 1911 in Berlin) was a German botanist and cactus specialist. Its official botanical author abbreviation is " Gürke ".

Life

He attended a secondary school in Görlitz first order and concluded this on September 1, 1875 maturity from. Subsequently, he studied in Berlin sciences. Later he worked as a teacher at a preparatory institution for cadets in Görlitz and 1886 he appeared as a research assistant in the College of the Botanical Museum in Berlin. In 1892 he received his doctorate in Göttingen for Doctor Philosophiae with a thesis on the Malvaceae. Subsequently, he was appointed auxiliary curator and already on 4 January 1893 curator of the Berlin Museum on July 9, 1892. In recognition of his services he was awarded the title of professor and awarded the Red Eagle Order IV class after the relocation of the museum to Dahlem on 15 April 1904. On 4 April 1906 he was admitted, the Leopoldina.

From 1905 to 1910 he was the first chairman of the German Cactus Society.

Publications

According to Karl Moritz Schumann's death he published Blooming cactus and edited the part of the Malvaceae (1892 ) for the Flora Brasiliensis of Martius. For The natural plant families (1887-1915) of Adolf Engler and Prantl Carl, he wrote the parts for Hydrocharitaceae (along with PFA Ascherson, 1889), to the Melianthaceae (1895 ), to the Ebenaceae and Styracaceae (1891 ) and the Boraginaceae (1893 ).

After Gürke Karl Schumann named the plant genus Guerkea.

Swell

• Walter Erhardt, Erich Götz, Nils Boedeker, Siegmund Seybold: The big ZANDER. Volume 2: Types and varieties. Eugen Ulmer Verlag, Stuttgart 2008, ISBN 978-3-8001-5406-7.
• Valentin Scholz: Chronicle of the German Cactus Society eV Stützel, bei Würzburg 1999 ( Special Issue of the German Cactus Society ).